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book award for Romance Novels The Chatelaine AwardsThe CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of  Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The Chatelaine  Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, and stories that appeal especially to fans of affairs of the heart to compete in the Chatelaine Book Awards (the CIBAs). 

These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

The 2020 CHATELAINE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize Winner were announced by Seán Dwyer on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 CHATELAINE Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the CHATELAINE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to all!

  • Linda Stewart Henley – Estelle: A Novel
  • Lindy Miller – The Magic Ingredient
  • Alexandrea Weis – The Christmas Spirit
  • Mary Ting – When the Wind Chimes  
  • Linda Lee Graham – A Thimbleful of Honor
  • Gayle Woodson – After Kilimanjaro
  • Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen
  • Carol Van Den Hende – Goodbye, Orchid        
  • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse    
  • Barb Warner Deane – The Whistle Stop Canteen
  • T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 CHATELAINE Awards is:

Mary Ting for

When the Wind Chimes

Cover of When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Chatelaine Badge for When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

The 2021 CHATELAINE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2022 CHATELAINE Book Awards are open until the end of August. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today! 

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.